If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
MALCOLM XSometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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